Trail Mixers Say: Truth, Lies and Secrets

It has become so apparent to me and undoubtedly clear during the last 6-8 years we in the United States have not been kept as informed by those running things here as we thought we were..

That realization has been a long time coming, and the ‘powers that be’ seem to (as good as) own the same media we count on to keep us aware of what is going on in our own country as well as in the rest of the world.

Our most treasured right (IMO): ‘Freedom of speech’ is not so free any more. It’s been replaced with being ‘politically correct’. And being ‘politically correct’ of course is subjective, depending on which side you think you’re on.

Tolerance has often been replaced with hate, because (IMO) we’re being manipulated by the media who is being manipulated (owned) by big money…. and big money owns many of the politicians.

So here we are, trying to make sense of the combination of truth and lies and secrets.

I’ve always been careful not to make a final decision about things, until I have all the facts in front of me. Well, I don’t think that’s possible any more (except on a personal/family level). We just have to remember that they keep changing the rules on us, and react accordingly.

I’m so grateful to have been born here and to have lived my life in this country… I love it here. But I find it absolutely necessary to block out most of the propaganda that is being thrown at us daily by the media under guise of truth.

I fear that investigative reporting is a lost art which I imagine is because there is no market for it.

Everyone has an agenda. We just don’t know what it is. Because what I’m seeing sure doesn’t make any sense.

33 thoughts on “Trail Mixers Say: Truth, Lies and Secrets”

Listen all! This is the truth of it. Fighting leads to killing, and killing gets to warring. And that was damn near the death of us all. Look at us now! Busted up, and everyone talking about hard rain! But we’ve learned, by the dust of them all… Bartertown learned. Now, when men get to fighting, it happens here! And it finishes here! Two men enter; one man leaves.

I am so overwhelmed that I don’t know what to say. I honestly never expected anyone to go back and see that comment.

I feel so unworthy of having my random thoughts and feelings (warts and all) at the top of your blog tonight — all I can say is thank you for making me feel that my thoughts aren’t worthless (at least ‘some’ of them) .

Quirky. Chloe:
Your Comment deserves the place of honor. I hope it gets as much attention in as many media outlets as possible. Any other forums that reprint your Comment should be mentioned in this Blog and supported. We work together, one word at a time.

Sturg –
Other great players we lost in the last few days:
Fontella Bass – Rescue Me

And

Ray Collins dies; singer with the Mothers of Invention was 75
Collins, who was steeped in doo-wop and pachuco, was critical to the band’s early sound. He fired the group’s first guitarist and replaced him with Frank Zappa. Collins left the band in 1968.

Sturg –
This is why we are friends. In the spring of 1967. I convinced my ‘homeroom teacher’ to let me play the “Mother’s of Invention” in our homeroom.
After that, other albums came flooding in, all the way to May.

Ray Collins and Frank Zappa –
“Trouble Comin’ Everyday”

Freak Out! is the debut album by American band The Mothers of Invention, released June 27, 1966 on Verve Records.

I’m really sorry CBob, but try as I might I cannot find the right balance between preventing the sort of spam we experienced this morning and allowing you to post multiple comments minutes apart. I’ll keep trying, but it’s a lot of work. I’ve once again cleared your login for posting, until next time.

CB, wheel of life. I loved Zappa in the 60s & 70s, loved Little Feat when Lowell George left the Mothers and formed it, and now LP loves Steve Vai, who Zappa described as the best guitarist he ever met.

Yep, Bill. It’s both terrifying and disgusting, the acts that can be performed under the name and rationalization of faith.

First they convince themselves, with each others support, that what they are doing is ‘right’, and therefore have a clear conscience. How is that any different than what we ‘classify’ as mental illness here in the U.S. The mind can rationalize anything it wants to do, and then deny it was it’s fault. ‘A voice in my head told me to do it’.

I see that less as insanity than as the minds defense mechanism for committing unthinkable acts.

‘Why’ a person is capable of deadly evil acts is less important to me than keeping them from doing them again. Ever.